{"id":128725,"date":"2025-08-08T09:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128725\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:44:14","slug":"a-comptrollers-sonnets-and-why-your-bookstore-is-just-now-getting-the-2025-international-booker-winner-literary-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128725\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comptroller\u2019s Sonnets and Why Your Bookstore is Just Now Getting the 2025 International Booker Winner \u2039 Literary Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture\u2014featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard.<\/p>\n

Summer means long days and hanging out in nature and Shakespeare \u2014 specifically Shakespeare in the Park. After James Folta wrote about NYC Comptroller Brad Lander\u2019s sonnet<\/a> for the ribbon cutting at the revamped Delacorte Theater in Central Park, his office reached out to remind us that the Comptroller has done this multiple times now\u2026 and so obviously, Drew had to talk to him about diving into the poetic form and the power of art to build empathy in these otherwise selfish times.<\/p>\n

Then, Stefan Tobler (publisher of & Other Stories) drops in to tell Drew what it\u2019s like to be a small press that wins a big prize \u2014 and why it is that copies of 2025 International Booker Prize winner Heart Lamp have taken so long to reach US bookshops.<\/p>\n

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The Lit Hub Podcast is a production of Lit Hub Radio and is available wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>; music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn; Engineering and production by Stardust House.
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